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qualified ‘j08 §f are prominentiy mentioned, ings Fandigacee gITL_ UP Without ume, | Phere ANE Lieutenayt ~~ *Rrookirp, | and we UOVermus weacn, MUrpily, vs ~ GRANTISN AND GREELBYISH, "Talks with Politicians and} Men of Affairs. WHAT THEY THINK OF THE ELECTION. en oe The Fall Contest in New York. The Expected Contest for Governor and Mayor. SaRatoea, August 6, 1872, A week's run on the errands of the HERALD to the prominent watering places enables me to put the views and portraits of some current men of atfairs before your readers. ri FERNANDO WOOD drinks the waters daily at Saratoga and dandles his children. He feels highly elated about the cam- paign; says Greeley will get the largest popular majority ever rolled up in the country, and says all this with a smile that is the very oi of gladness, MAHLON. SANDS. The good-looking but sorely-cut Secretary of the Free Trade League is at Newport, keeping quiet and satling his boat in appreciative company. He met @ friend at the Ocean House last Thursday and said :— “Why, Williams, you stood up ke a man for ~Adams, didn’t you, at Cincinnati?” “Yes, Will Grant be elected 7” “Lhope so. He will get my vote.” “Do you still continue to publish the Free Trader 9” “No. Iam watting till the people recover their departed good sense,” HON. SMITH ELY. Smith Ely ts at the Congress Hal, Saratoga. He has been out on his farm in New Jersey, guiding the plough and cutting down his woods, like all the foliowers of George Washington. “How are Greeley’s chances, Mr. Ely?” “1 think very good. Itseems to be an embittered contest, with much less fun in it than Jookers on anticipated. But the democratic vote will go for Greeley iu all its length and breadth, and the Cin- cinunati party appears to hold its own and be ag- gressive. That ought to make enough to win and @ 00d deal to spare.” “You and Greeley are old friends since your days in the Board of Supervisors?” “Yes, I used to have the fight all to myself then against Mr. Tweed, and Greeley could be relied upon to give me aid and comfort all the time.”” “The ring ts done for at last?” “It was a great fall, If those men had ruu on three years longer they would have made the city insolvent, putting, perhaps, $500,000,000 on it. The bills already in amount to about $120,000,000, and some of the latest ones appear to be in proper form. They were crushed on to a destiny like their’a by the very weight and multiplication of their supporters and henchmen who had to be re- tained. Did you ever know that it was one of their conceptions to sell villa lots off the Central Park?” “NO,” “That was at one time broached. The proposi- tion was to have been, that by environing the edges of the Park with villas the whole debt of the city could have been paid off.” “I sec that Grecley’s name 1s coupled with Tam- many.” “Absurd! The gale that blew down Tammany is ‘blowing at federal abuses and the federal ring.” HON. 8 8 COX. This alert, untiring and always sunshiny man of ready speech and a point made in every sentence, 1s at Congress Hall, Saratoga. He reads novels all the forenoon and goes to a hop every night. He will probably be a candidate for Congressman at large in the State of New York, and, if defeated | there, stand in the city. NEW YORK CITY POLITICIANS TALK. A group of State and city public men on the porch of the Continental, at Long Branch, dis- cussed the aspect of State and Corporation politica last Wednes¢lay. | “The two great points of strategy are for the Governorship and the Mayoralty,” said one well | known. “For the Mayoralty Charles E. Leow is in training by Sheriff Brennan, who is now the most potent authority in the city. Oswald Ottendorfer is ambitious for the place on behalf of the Germans, and Jimmy O'Brien will get a part of the support ot the Grant people. He is putting men in the Custom House, Navy Yard and in certain railways every day, following out Tweed’s tactics of rising upon the shoulders of those he creates.” “Will the republicans venture to run Mi O'Brien 7?” asks one, incredulously. “1 don't see how they can, unless they put up a candidate for a blind, run their boxes in O’Brien’s interest and count himin, But it will be danger- ous work to be detected in this, for there would be @ tremondous republican boit. O’Brien’s whole strength is with a part of the Irish population; he hjs au intimate knowledge of the feelings of that element and an acquaintance extraordinary in | bumbers, which he retatns by a memory and ad- dress wonderful to men not acquainted ‘With sub- a ol olitics.”? “Why don't the parties rnp some high-toned citi- ven, merchant or may of national acquaintance?" chirps in an Mmquirer. ‘That is not possible in a great city where every- body votes. Men must be taken up popular with large masses, The politician at a distance has everything to unlearn when he comes to city elec- tious in a place as composite as New York. “Who is likely to be nominated for Governor?"t “As it stands to-day Penore E, etch leads the string. He ts preferted by thé féW dispedsation in en ee ae and has supreme hold in Western New York, But he is not wealthy, has already a Jong term at a good salary at the head of the Court ot Appeals, and prospects besides for the Secre- taryship of the Treasury if Mr. Greeley be elected. He has great fitness for the jatter place, being by service in a aimilar réie | in thid State, He can probably get the nomination fev, Governor If he makes up his mind about it Francis Kiernan, of Utica, and ay more. Inthe Court of Impeachment of «ue itarnara there are haifa dozen aspirants on diferent sides—Jarvis Lord, A. C. Beach, Church, Murphy, Senators Robertson and Palmer and Mr. Alvord.” “What of John T. Hoffman, 2” i alt al “still in the field for the third time, bet he haa better take his cliances for the Senatorship. The July riots of last. year and the unfair imputa- tion of tammany affect him with a large clement and with seme temporary disfavor. The Germans still adhere to him but the liberal republicans de- sire Church's selection and their desire will go a tong way this vear.” “Yog,) said one, “Church is avery high type of man, equal to the place at this peculiar tine—a man of intellect and a large politician, versed in afairs. epting Governor Seymour, he is the ablest democrat, all things © dered, in the State of New York. This era is t only that of national but of e reform, and the State polit. cians of the democratic party perceive it and want tuke the lead, They ave plenty to do. Look at the city here; eoinces in it make three per | sonal Fevenues which amount to $200,000 added to- | ether, led by the Sheriffalty with $150,000 a year. Fo whiole jurticiary system is a failure, with foor judges impeached or resigning and one or two more who deserve as budly,’* SENATORS SPRAGUE AND ANTHONY. These rulers of Rhode Isiand and Providence Plantations take different courses in the summer, ator Sprague devoting himself to his own pro- fscttlement of Narragansett Pier and Sevator Aagthony ol between Newport, Rocky Point and Saratoga. tle is at present at the latter spot, dyawing heaith at the Grand Union, Senator Sprague is moderately for Greeley, but pot excited over the selection, having a father-in- Jaw of Lis own, The marriage business has become a@ureat attair in politics, Governor Sprague is a man of quick parts, seusiliveness and an unhealthy kind of pluck which becomes belligerency without ; any proclamation of war. If he were nota very great and successful manufacturer he would be a great reformer and philanthropist, and yet, with auygestions and schemes sometiin be ld out to national pretensions, he cannot | 1 to have done more in a s than to have aided the war as a democrat and to have rebuked wealth as one himself wealthy. “The meanness of hall a million, exceeded only by the cowardice of a million,” has gone into literature, for it was the eat and satirical expression of the great fact that pmereial Wealth seldom ventures to close im with bold and high questions and ts afraid of ali sorts of change: Senut, Aythony never made an epigram as successful as Spragne’s; he never created a watering place o# commanded a regiment, nor ad- eee inbor mers from the standpoint of a inillionnaire ; itis rare that a man who can Doaket vallroud of tayed rec terns aker ever owned a or stayed tl ermns in the United States Senate. Anthony is the safest of 3 six anillions are not of hin. He has that fine hy em and head and hale look bie to the largest Tint of politicians, and, pleasing face, ed! OD, aD ogee temper and a refined way. He isthe President of the Senate Saacus of the rept party and got the full sup- rhs laot election.” Governor Sprague: tougnt jor Sprague foug' him hard, without ndtice and without effect, except to make Anthony's Providence friends spend a good deal of unnecessary money. is oiling ‘else. “Charice Sumner ‘is the only eseep- ‘umner only exce} difference of 0) y changed the pride of consistent public leader in its history to news- paper biliingsgate and counting-room hate. ¢ HERALD correspondent met Senator Anthony yesterday, who said :— Hyd jo ABC the Cepecrais going ?”” “Generally reeley; hardly a percentage the other way.” ve oe ‘That a my impression,” said the Senator, “I think that the way the campaign is setting shows that the democrats who resist will come in for Greeley, and Grant will gain hence forward repub- lican_ votes. Pi 8 stand in column pretty much as before,” Judge Barnard joing by at the time on his ven? court, it was stated to Senator Anthon: at he was one of the instances of an elective judiciary, pale Mregtia @ year, twice as much as the Chief ustice of the United States, and still not above the reach of moneyed corporations. “An elective judiciary,” said the Rhode Island Senator, ‘is probably a concomitant of the abuse of universal suffrage. Perhaps all the evils that now hem us round are fruits of the universal privi- Jege to vote. Lsupported the amendments extend- ing the «1 to negroes, and yet felt that it was to be an evil only Jess than the evil of which it was the counter-irritant. We had to choose be- tween intelligent treason and ignorant loyalty— Detween a man who knew how to run the engine and meant to ron it off the track, and @ man who did not know how to run it and was sure to moet with accidents, We have too much. suffrage; that ip the matter. ‘Not only do people vote for every- thing, judges included, but everybody votes.’ Asa proprietor of the Providence Journal Senator Anthony was led to say that, as chairman of the Printing Records Committee, he favored the issuing by the Government Printing OMce at Washington of an official United States Gazette, like the Engl Gazette, to break up the abuse of government ad- vertising in papers, destroy the main forms of pro- posals id notifications, which now cost enor- mously and led to evils of patronage, while the government possessed all the appliances to do the work and could directly overlook it. Senator Anthony also thought that the Jake Thompson letter Reule excite indignation to the extent of thousands of votes. THE VANDERBILT PARTY. At Congress Hall, Saratoga, the great Vanderbilt party has two daily sittings at five-handed euchre. he first sitting begins at ten A, M. and ends at half-past twelve o'clock, and the eight P, M. and enas at half-past ten. o’clock every evening Commodore Vanderbilt takes a family drive with his wife. and for the rest of the time he sits upon the piazza and strolis at intervals down to the Hamilton Spring. The euchre party consists of the well known Vanderbilt regency— the Commodore and Messrs. Petit, Harker, Booker and Turnbull—all hale men of the masculine sex, who ere no quarter and ask none, and play for a small and uniform stake, just suMcient to enliven the labor. People who suppose that the wealthiest man in the country—who could put up railway se- curities enough to get the loan of all the bank!n, capital the State of New York if he wished—disports himself extravagantly for that reason, might study the simple tastes of Cornelius Vanderbilt. A pair of horses, a house, a table for long whist, a Saratoga piazza and pair of lazy slippers, and half @ dozen masculine men to deal and shuffle and ante-up—this is the best that filty millions can do, ‘*This 1s the end of life,” says the Commodore, “and I am content.” People wok from the great opposite piazzas of Saratoga at this scene daily:—Mrs. Vanderbilt, in a red shawl and quiet dress, a slender lady, accompanied by one laay friend, and that tall spar of a veteran pilot, sailor and railway kKing—who has slaughtered impru- dent stock operators along a line of 800 miles—her husband, climbing daily into their wagon for a dash out to Glen Mitchell, or the lake, or as far as Ballston Spa, and they see the lesson of Vanderbilt's success in this little daily excur- sion: simplicity of living, exercise, health, a few friends, and no more, all approved by time tor steadiness, and all male friends, and of the masculine sex. There is a wondrous health in Vanderbilt of mind and body. No self- contemplation, but all the world lies material and extrinsic to him like the ocean toa great fish. He dismisses those whom he dislikes without rage, repels smnall pursuers and politicians by the sense of impregnamity and command which resides in him, ard, although no mystery to par boay and no Marve! of reticence, he has so little love of crowds, show, praise or endorsement that there nas been Jess written about him in the newspapers affording aclue to his character than about apy man in our era. His income is $4,000,000 a year. He refuses to receive telegraph Gespatches atiout railway details,. and js not an active manager of the roads, being satisfied with his lientenants, all of whom are far- seeing, comprehensive men. He is seventy-eight years of age, fruga! in living, with perfect peace of mind, and he says that all the years a man lives alter seventy are clear gain upon destiny. “Everybody,” said a friend of his yesterday, “gets justice from Vanderbilt, like unto him- sell, who Ww @ stockholder in the roais he controls. The widow with $10,000 gets her pro rata, just as he does. The | former Presidents of the Central used the road for rivate commerce and political control. Vander- it never needs to “shin” for a dividend; he treples the dividends, heaps up a surplus and shows that railways can be administered like pri- vate property.” ‘The Commodore hasone brother, “the Captain,” who with lesser stature walks beside him. His son, William, a man of Atty, is the practical mana- ger of his railways when at home. The other son, Coruelius, Jr., has little disposition for business aud resides at Hartford, Conn. DAN DREW bid rere last Sunday, and somebody said to Van- jerbilt:— “How conld so good @ man as Drew travel on the Lord's Day?” 0,” saia Vanderbilt, “Drew couldn't stay out of Wall street long enough to travel on Saturdays. The Sabbath is his only time of leisure.” TALK WITH JIMMY O'BRIEN. The Apolio-like leader is at Saratoga, very tired of sitting in the State Senate, for, he says, it costs him $20 a day in Albaay, besides his losses in pros- pects and property in New York; and he would resign but the uptown nobility will not permit it. Tle goes to the impeachment trial a little and rides about cae lerab ad. the neat “Mr, Q Prien,” suid (ie HERALD correspondent, “how is the Barnard ice presen yy sie “Well, sir, without regard to my former expres- sions about Judge Barnard, | shall vote accordin; to the evidence and arguments presented here. ‘4 am guided a good deal by the Court of Appeals, who rane more about the realities of the law than we einai as sine = “Is Tammany Hall much revolutionizeé? under the new directory ?”” “They can't hold the vote together like the old crowd. Their forces are not so manageable and 80 easily reached by the new people.” es, iL Tweed, eweeby and Connolly reappear in politics ?* on ie ay “Not Connolly, He is too old and broken, Tweed is ambitious and may design to re!gaue, Mr. Sweeny lives quietly between Lake Mahopac and New York, and his intentions are not known.” wl suppose all thgse persons are severe upon you ~ * wphay My Nor, I think they are not angry at my mela bs they compelled, after Tejecting he advice Ihave Shem. $0 zal the rempect of the better clases, explain that tuey had done well enough “aividually and wanted reform. Had they take, that advice at the time the thunderstorm Would have been averted. They said:—‘We can do without eer we are strong enough!’ And then came the fall.’ “What O'Rourke was it who copied the figures in the city offices which led tothe Tammany tumble iad “There Was a man of that name who claimed the credit for those extracts from the Comptroller's books. They were really copied by a young protégé of mine named Copeland. 1 told him what to get; the ring peopic endeavored to capture him, pen- sion him, &c., but he was faithful to the last.’? “How does the contest for the Mayoralty stand, Mr. O'Brien?” erything is as yet uncertain. The parties and factions are in a chaotic state, ana many of the city politicians will turn in where they can get the best terms, There being no overruling organiza- tion ail are in doubt and feeling their way. The last election startied all those who thonght the domination of a few persons eternal. When I beat John Bradley—a very agree- able and popular man, by the way—by 15,000 ma- jority, 1 told people on the fence, who were betting against me, that they could get @ barrel of money by taking the great odds offered on Bradley. Since that mistake they don’t trust their own judg- ments.’! Senator O’Brien is himseif @ candidate for the Mayoralty, and says he don't want the oitice of Sherid again, He says that had he been in the city when Barnard issued the order to break open the Union Pacific safe his oficers should not liave | obeyed it, Amid the frequent litigations which ensue upon precipitate or unwarraniable acts of sheriffs’ officers, O'Brien escaped while Sherr with but one suit brought against him. He says that the demands upon city politicians for appointments to office are frightful im number, and that the ouly enemies le makes are men Whom it is impossible to accommodate in this way, JUDGE GROVER, This romantic and cicar-headed old jurist is at- tending the Barnard trial at Saratoga, where he ia the leading ¢pirit, and took original exception to the $26 a day which the members are said to re- ceive while acting asa Court. He is ardent for Greeley for President and Charch jor Governor. It is related of him that some time ago an effort was made to raise the salaries of the Judges of the Court of Appeals, of which he ts one. The Judge said when it was broached vo hit: “Don’t do it. Ihave the greatest diMeuity in spending $4,000 a year, and what I shouid do with more i can’t conceive,” NEW ‘YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST I], 187%---TRIPLE BUCOLIC POLITICS. “The New York Rural Sentiment” Giving Reasons for Support- ing the Sage. SARTOR RESARTUS. The Career of Honest Old Horace--- The Solon and Founder of the Republican Party. DISAFFECTED COUNTRY POLITICIANS. NOBMANSKILL VALLEY, August 8, 1872. The eastern end of the valley of the Normanskill ia one of the richest portions of central New York. The small, sluggish river washes down from the rougher and rockier regions of Schoharie and Schenectady counties plentiful alluvial deposits, and this action has been continuing for centuries, and, doubtless, began before Darwin’s primal inhabitants of the wilderness yet bore a very striking resemblance to humanity. Yet some evidence of their former presence still exists. The Jountainhead of the Normanskill is not more than a@ mile from the. course of the Schoharie River, and yet it flows almost at right angles with it. The waters of the two streams ultimately mingle in the noble current of the Hudson. Lying in billowy successions of gentle hills and well- watered hollows, which are picturesque with the stately groves of elms that dot the broad expanses of cultured flelds, this is almost a veritable Garden of Eden—to use an ancient comparison—but for the fact that its beauty and fine agricultural condl- tion have been the work of a long line of TARIPTY TILLERS OF TIE SOIL, whose present successors dwell in cool, spacious farm houses, and slowly increase their fortunes with every day of their lives, while contentedly en- joying the possession and the generous products of their broad acres. The calm, quiet life of the well-to-do farmer con- stitutes him the true freeman of a nation of free- men. He is unshackled by the entangled cares of business, by the bondage of intense thought or the forced allegiance to selfish political interests which often break men’s consciences, and, a prince in his own domain, always surveys the horizon of Public affairs with cooler judgment and less bias of prejudice than the merchant, the office- holder or the scholar. He looks more to integrity of principle, to the evidences of the Yankee quality of capability, and less to those of eloquence or culture in the men whom he favors. He rests satisfed with what is Progressing smoothly without great alarms, pro- vided 1t was originally favored by nis preconceived opinions, and lends but a dull ear to the charges that are breathed by busy lips against the high personages who have long held his contidence. It is not easily shaken, either by humor or foul-odored accusation, Although having the best chance for thinking without prejudice, yet his predilections are the power that influence most his sentiments, and they do not change unless slowly and regret- fully. THE RURAL MIND. This is a sketch of the general state of the rural mind of the country. For the very reasons given above it is decisively and permanently divided. There are men who have regarded Greeley through the latest years of our history as the hero par excel- lence of its destiny—as the man who built up by his own efforts the great party that so long held the reins of its power; and through its most momentous epochs he was, perhaps, venerated as much and in some such fashion ag was Solon, after he had given the laws to others, and while he held himself aloof for the stipulated ten years, The country folk felt a brotherhood of feeling with the man who was used to making speeches at agricultural fairs and who talked and wrote so knowingly of squashes, turnips and corn. What though he was irapracticable in his ideas on these great subjects, he was THEIR MENTAL HERO, the man of great qualities and even of genius, who made his aim in life the obtaining of their good will, for there is no doubt that it was upon this that he founded his hope of success. WHO WILL VOTE FOR GREELFY. Old men who have grown gray in following their own ploughs through the furrows of life, with faces tanned as much as their cowhide boots in the suns of many summers, and forms bent by toiling in the gathering of many harvests, feel as if they had worked at ms side in the same contest and with the same worthy principle, only in a diferent way—he working out the | intellectual problem, they the physical. Those who | are his contemporaries iave watched him since the beg inning of his public life and found something in all his eccentricities to recommend him to their love—for so he is regarded. Among these men Greeley is invulnerable. They have followed him from the beginning and they Will follow him to the end. Their faith is in the old White hat, which most of them, some time or other, have seen at agricultural gatherings. It, to them, is the sign of honesty and single-hearted- ness. They will vote for Gretley, ~~ #6: « : we WILL, NOT VOTE FOR GREELEY. But, uhluckily for the philosopher's guileless ; spirations, all the farmers in this country, whic Is 1 good criterion by which to judge the State, are not in this way of thinking. Ther n6 ¢ ph phat nis majority in New York is Secure, but I think it | certain ¢hat it will be maf fess than that fixed upon by the hopes of the liberal w: men and prophets. | The old répulslicans,” whose poiitical faith | was red in the bone,” have never recovered | from the shock which was given them hy ‘the | bailing of Jefferson Davis.” This is a trite thing for oné to mention even at this time, when the boneg of all old political skeletons are rattled about | in a fearful manner. But it is one of the points on which will turn the result of this campaign, strange | as it may seem. It is the event which tirst reaily Ural argnment, and rankles bitterly in the breasts The; ert that he hag “Soha into he. uc} Pahtate power, out of which lightly formed that it may be easily dissipated by ple of Greeley is also present in every man’s recommendation that the South be allowed to “go aba? logies for certain support of the democrats of New York city; his etronagly lauding his administration, and, iastly, his | he nomination of the “sorehead conspiracy” at ‘These are their words, They believe that the Presidency; that he has been “fishing” for the of opinions meet in a columon conviction of his own act, although he had previously written the savage late and their lands and houses ravaged ; his stand- if it is, Indeed, possible, to in view of the fact that this is his own State this op- ofthe old republicans in the rural districts will democrats, and so is sure of success. Yet those re- siasm.” This plainly appears from interviews curred yesterday and was ; The SHEET. 3 manskill, and composed altogether of undulating ground, is a pleasant residence, not a great dis- tance from a point where the modest steeples of Albang city can be seen. From this spot the Cats- kKillsare very plainly visible, sweeping in blue sub- limity their misty curves along the southern horizon. The Green Mountains and the Berkshire Hills bound the eastern prospect, and be- jow them glisten the broad waters of the Hudson, dotted with white-winged sloops and schooners, and over whose bosom occasionally glides @ graceful river steamer on ita way to or from the metropolis. The sombre wooded Hielderbe! 80 name wong ago by the Hollanders who settled at Fort Orange, loom up from the southwestern por- tion of the valley. Over the tree tops, half way up the mountain sides, are long white battlements of limerock, and these. are full of curious caverns, which are seldom explored, but are well worth a visit Of an out-of-the-way tourist. This valley is high, compared with the surrounding regions. The gentleman who owns this farm I have men- tioned if in very “easy circumstances,” and seeming! lives very happily amo his flelds, thinking of the outside world with only be 4 interest and yet with remarkable clearness and intelligence, and a shrewd common sense and humor which seem native to the soil, He setsa cent table and is an excellent host. All these qualities made him a very agreeable person to call upon for POLITICAL PROGNOSTICATIONS AND OPINIONS, Mr. R. was once a democrat. That was a 00d while ago, however. He voted for General ndrew Jackson, the stanch old true-blooded fed. eral, and tor Martin Van Buren. At the opening of the war, like thousands of others both at North and South, he became a republican. Now his alle- giance Is wavering between the two parties—libe- democratic and regular republican. Walking along a finely-shaded road from the railway depot, late in the afternoon, when the air, which Was fragrant with the odor of curing grees was cooled by a slight southward breeze, I found Mr, R— In a meadow, where his men were just finishing the work of the hay harvest. Droppi My satchel by the fence, over which I jumped, advanced to meet him and was shaken. warmly b; the hand, man of fifty; that at fifty as many ae Mr. R-— 18 a you at thirty. which 5 is as well preserve denizens of the metropotia are is thick and biack, and his beard, is. short and luxuriant, grows all over his face. His body ts sbort and thick-set, strong and broad- shouldered. His ancestora were farmers, for long generations in the past, and he began in that voca- tion for himself when he was seventeen years of » He is a man of some taciturnity in relation to subjects upon which his mind is satistied, and re- sembles General Grant as well in this asin the quiet firmness, resolution, and, perbaps, stubbornness, which form parts of his character. After the recog- nition and the usual aes T asked him how the people in his neighborhood regarded the quea- nn Which was to be contested at the close of the ampaign. AN INTERVIEW. “Well,” said he, “I don’t know as they hardly know themselves, 1 guess they think that there is not much at issue, Itis no longer @ question of party, or of principle even, but of men.” “Well, then, I suppose Greeley has an immense majority here ?” “Well, there’s no telling. I don’t know but I shall vote for him, I want to wait, though, and see how both candidates act up to the time of election. If Greeley don't say or do anything to lessen my opinion | think I shall help to make him the next President.” “Are you content to Rab port @ man who, they Say, has sold himself and the interest of his old party to the enemy in order to obtain power ?”” “What does it amount to anyhow? There is no difference in the principles claimed by either party. latform ef the Cincinnati Convention was od at Baltimore, was it not?” ah but do you think Greeley’s record is a goca on “Well, he didagreat deal for the republican party; that’s one thing about it, He was almost its founder, and I suppose has helped it more, fought and worked harder for it than any other man in the country, They say some very bad things about him though, and “WHERE THERE'S SMORE THERE'S FIRE.!? as my old grandfather used to gay. But I don’t know of what public man you can speak with franker praise. The republicans owe more to him for their party than they ever can repay or ever will Greeley has written better and stronger things than ad One else since his public life began, and hasbeen but ungratefully rewarded. I have Teason to suppose that he is still what he always professed to be—a true, downright republican. His accepting the aid of the democracy does not imply that he has forsaken his Hanes a ‘as yet. There is @ good deal said of Grant's faults, vices and er- rors; but I do not know of much that can be said against “honest old Horace.” ‘Don’t you see that, being elected by the demo- crats, he will have to be toa certain degree respon- sible to them?” “As long as they are good men I see no objection. But I do not think that those republicans who vote for Greeley will refuse to vote for the regular Con- “gressional ticket. They will be TRUE TO THEIR TRADITIONS ‘im that as they will be in the other course. Greele has but to be faithful to the platform upon whic! he was nominated. I do not think that anythin, can be said inst that. In one point it is de: cient. It calls for no decisive policy In regard to the tariff, and Greeley has even pledged himself to have no decisive policy, and to recommend no ac- tion to Congress.’” “He has heen, all his life, a protectionist.” 6, but they have tied him hand and: foot, and he—is it from lust for position (—has allowed them to do it; has aided them himself.” “The democracy have always been for free trade." a then, there will be quarrelling in the Cabinet 7 ado) NEPOTISM. “What do you think of Grant's nepotism 1 “Well, to be frank, I do not really find much fault in Grant’s administration. It has been peaceful enough and very prosperous, I don’t like his appointments very well, but there are few men who would not have done nearly the same, and he has never yet created sinecures for his relatives.” “That was the system of Tammany ?’ “You want to know what my real sentiments are, and | say —That I do not suppose that Greeley will be elected. I favor him in preference to Grant because of the respect Inspired by his lon; years of service in every good cause. jo not really believe that he is fit for the office. His true mis- sion is that of an editor; and if he were President he probably after that would write very little. His character is not suited to executive duties. I always thought that he did not want office until the letter which he wrote to Thurlow Weed came out and was published. He has tried very hard to be Gov- ernor. But this is pardonable weakness, although, to my mind, it does not reflect lis much-talked-of honesty very brilliantly.” “Then you are not a Greeley man after all ?”” “Tam nota Grant man. We don’t want a mill- tary man at the head of our government since the Sayeoe or the sayy of arbitration,” “But is not thé mah tinder whose administration the precedent of arbitration was established fit to be our President for four years longer ?”” FISH GETS HIS DUB. “Well, the cabinet of a Presideft makes a great difference in the success of his administration, I PURO “Why do you refuse to vote for Grant ?” Ue eat I am oppesed to any man_ holding the comes for fore thah Gne term, I think four years of supreme power long enough. He has too much opportunity then to abuse it, and to commit all manner of misdeeds, 1 think the constitution must be amended in this respect, and that is where the Cincinnati convention inay be the cause of som: good being Songripisried, Ido not think we shall ever have a good President until that is done. A President will then have no inducement to be wire- pulling during his first term to secure a second,” After a little moye gonversation “ the mellow supper horn" soufded from the faith house, ringing over the long rolling hills, carpeted by soft green grass or by wide seas of waving grain, and echoed back from the woods that luy south of the meadows, POLITICAL NOTES, The democrats of the Firat district have nomi- nated F, C. Zacherie for Congress, At the Niagara County First Assembly District Kepublicaa Coiivention, held in Lockport, N. ¥., yesterday, Judge Levi, F. Brown, Elanson T, Ode, and Willard A. Cobb were chogen deiegaies 6 the Republican State Convention, at Utica, Angust 21. FE. M, Chamberlin, chairman of the New York La- bor Conference, has postponed, until farther notice, the Labor Reform Convention that was to have been held at Philadelphia, gust 22, the National Excentive Committee of the Labor party having called a Convention to meet at Columbus, Ohio, August 21. The Liberal Convention of Louisiana has nomi- nated a full State ticket, as follows :—Governor, D. B. Penn, of Orleans; Lieutenant Governor, J. 5. Young, of Claiborne; Auditor, James Graham, of Orleans; Secretary of State, fF. E. Dumas, of Orleans red) ; Attorney General, W, F. Kernan, of East liciana; Superintendent of Public Education, J. McDonald, of Webster: Congressman at Large, George A. Sheridan, of Orleans. The Convention adjourned with no fusions effected. It is now be- lieved that the Pinchback republicans will fuse with the administration republicans. A SHOPLIFTER LEAVES SING SING. Mary Aiexander, alias “The Madame,” one of the oldest and most adroit shoplifters in the country, was discharged from Sing Sing Prison yesterday af- ternoon, having served out her second term in that institution, When conducted to the Warden's office for the purpose of receiving her discharge the “Madame” was attired in a faded suit of second mourning, while in her antiquated features shabby gentility and injured innocence seemed to struggle for the mastery. ‘This notorious female, who is in her geventy-fifth year, is well known to the police authorities of New York, where she has long stood at the head of her projession as an instructress of female pupils in the light-fingered art. It is doubtful whether her incarceration has caused the “Madame” to abandon her dubjons ways, as she at first declined to receive $4, Which she was ailowed by the State on leaving, but requested a young woman, who was also being discharged, to take charge of it for ber. The latter, however, iudignantly refused, abated the hero-worstup of Greeiey by the old re- pubjicans, and to-day it is referred to in every poli- of the men who now ésteem the nominee of the Hon ORE Bo peer eo a traitor to the mis- elon ule, Joud tt ane out, that ye h Baily of Beseksfon and slavery may once more creep, serpent-like, it bas boon ESD #0 long 6 votes of the peopl of the North. This beltef is not so {pyiat once whatever arguments the liberal stump speakers are able to employ. The alleged vacillation in princi- thought; his old bargains with Thurlow Weed; his editorial course at the beginning of the war; his in veace;” Dis opposition to Lincoln's r a? his contradictory totrse in re- a General Grant; hig Fammany oMicials; his Mhanceuvres to win the obstinate bolting from the regular organization there; his antagonism to the President, after so hobnobbing with democrats, “copperheads,” unre- | entant “rebels! and Tammanyites, and accepting | Cincinnati, which, they say, had at heart the de- struction of the time-honored republican party. GREELEY’S COURSE FOR THE LAST TWELVE YEARS has been shaped altogether by his desire to secure | sort of mediey support which he has at length gained and has been trying to make all shades worth, Part of this plot was his opposition to Lin- coin's re-election; his eager favoring of an amnesty hope that the rebels shouki not return home in peace, but should find their hearths coid and des ing bail for the “arch-rebel;’ his journeys North and West, and ali the rest of the record. Jt is hard, CONVINCE THEM THAT THEY ERR. Their convictions have been of slow growth, and position is somewhat formidable. Lhave no hesitation ip saying that the majority vote for Grant. Greeley has the support of about one-third of them with that of seven-eighths of the publicans who declare their intention to vote for him are not exactly animated by ‘burning enthu- which I have taken pains to have with some of the most respected and influential. One of these oc- “A HARD NUT TO CRACK." r Tn the midst of @ fine ‘arm, lying upon the Nor- telling the hyary-headed dame to take care of it hersely THE POLITICAL HEADQUARTERS. An Unusual Dearth of Visitors and News—Notes from Vormont—Progress of the Cam- paign in Maine—Local and Goneral Topics. The Liberal Headquarters. Another dull day at these headquarters. But few distinguished strangers called, there being an unusual paucity of visitors. Nothing fresh has been received from North Carolina, and it cannot yet be ascertained that Merrimon has any inten- tion of contesting the election on the ground of intimidation and fraud. ‘The advices received from Maine indicate a close contest, with a Mattering prospect of success on the liberal side. Every part of the State will be thoroughly canvassed by speakers who have a na- tional reputation, and it is consi“ered that there Will be @ sufficient number of <isaffected repub- licans separated from the Grant party to carry the State for the liberal party in September and for Greeley and Brown in November. The great contest willbe in Augusta, the home of Speaker Blaine, and it will be the main rallying point by both sides during the cam- paign. The boasting assertion of Blaine that the State would be carried by an Increased majority in November for Grant 1s not generally believed either by his friends, the most sanguine friends of the Ad- ministration believing that if their party holds its own it will be a at Srtemepts all things con- sidered, The jai unanimity with which the liberal republicans and the democrats are working together is giving general satisfaction, and it is ex- cted to accomplish its object in carrying the tate for Greeley. The strength of the republican party in Vermont is 80 great, that but slight hopes are entertained of carrying the State for the liberals. It is, how- ever, stats that the radical majority will be consideral redueed, some placing the loss as high as 15,000, which would still leave a majority of 10,000 for Grant. The action of Mr. Horrobin, in withdrawing for the good of the common cause, in favor of Mr. A. B, Gardiner, who it is expected would poll @ larger vote tor Governor, is greatly commended, and has produced a most excellent effect, knitting both parties more closely together. General Banks, who is now in this city, will, it is expected, take the stump in the State. ’ General Kilpatrick has already departed, and is now ac- tively e1 ed in making speeches in the State. In Wi irginia the contest, which ts entirely among democrats, 1s not interfered with by the liberals, they thinking it better to not embarrass the contest with any interference, particularly as both the candidates favor the Cincinnati platform and the Cincinnati candidates. The only real point at issue ig the fight about the new constitution, and when that is settled it is expected that both parties will cordially unite and carry the State tri- umphantly for Greciey and Brown in November, A Greeley club was started at Trumansourg, N. Y., on the 26th of July, and the president of it, who visited the commitice rooms yesterday, says that it already numbers 450 members. The entire voting population of the piace is 900, so that one- half of the entire vote is already secured in the cause of reform. Much amusement was created in the room by the Presence of a respectable looking but rather ex- citable gentleman. He was a former Grant man, but the appointment of Tom Murphy to the office of | Collector of the Port was more than he could stand, and he left the administrative party. In bea pa | himself about the merits of the case he Bald :— hy, sir, when the man first wrote his signature After accepting the position it read thus:—‘Thomas Murphy, Kollector.’ I blushed for my country when the circumstance was first related to me, and I determined no government should have my support which would sanction such an | infamous outrage on the American people.” ‘The list of visitors comprised, among others, Abraham Murdock, President Mobile and Ohid Railroad; Cecil Lloyd, of New York; W. N. Saun- ders, of Maryland; Major T. E. Halleck, of illinois, and i. J. Limkauf, of Pleasantville, N. ned The Grant Headquarters. A good many strangers from tue South and West called at these headquarters yesterday, and gave flattering and rose-colored reports of the prospects of the republicans in the different States where they hailed from. Mr. Noble H. Hurrion, of Cleve- land, Ohio, is confident that his State will give | @ sweeping majority in November, estimating it as high as 25,000. The defection to Greeley | is not serious, as it will prove to be when the election day comes to hand. A gentle- man from Illinois feels confident that Grant will carry the State, but did not fix any majority, evi- dently not wishing to become a prophet whose pre- dictions might be falsified. Advices recently re- ceived from Florida emphatically deny that Greeley has any chance of success in that remote southern region, the republican tga * being at the present time exceptionally strong. The State is said to be all right ior Grant in November. The other visitors are all equally sanguine in their anticipations, pooh-poohing the liberal move- ment and affecting to despise its infuence. How far these gentlemen are sincere in their opinion | remains to be seen. To be such aslight thing the liberal movement has been a great source of trouble to them, and when the first news came from North Carolina genuine terror took the place | of affected unconcern. The general mistake both the friends of the administration and its enemies make is to affect to underrate the respective strength of their opponents, which is very unwise, as each 18 likely to make a strong fight. The Secretary of the Veteran's Committee has still his hands full in attending to the numerons re- sponses the call for the gathering at Pittsburg on the 17th has brought forth. The only drawvack is that some of the prominent signers liave disowned all connection with the undertaking, stating that their names have been used in an unwarrantabie manner, Among the visitors who called were Noble H. flurrion, Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. H. G. Eastman, Poughkeepsic; Dan. 8. Duvall and P. Jackson, Florida; G. 8, Eldridge, Ottawa, Ill.; Colone) Chas. G. Otis, Yonkers; Noah W. Hoyt, Mr. Caman, Con- necticut; J. M. Barnhardt, New York: Sydney De Kalb and D. Rodney, Alabama; Hon. W. A. Wheeler, M. C, Malone New York. The Democratic Headquarters. The rallying ground of the democrats at the | Spingler House was almost deserted yesterday, to | the great relief of those in charge, who were almost wearied out with the labors of the weck. No letters or despatches of ban aap ca were received during the day. fajor Banks left for Long Branch in the afterngon to be absent until Monday. THE BUTLER-CAMPBELL AFFAIR IN EGYPT, Official Statement to the Military Au- thoritics. ALEXANDRIA, Joly 14, 1872. To General C. P. Srons, Chief of Statt:— GENERAL—On the evening of the 12th instant, be- ing late in the city, myself and two officers, Cofonel Alick Reynolds and Major Campbell, dined toge%her. After we had dined and on passing out we saiuted, in the politest manner possible, Mr. Butler, the Consul General of the United States, wlio was din- ing in the same saloon. We had all passed into the | street when the Consul General, Mr. Butler, called repeatedly to Major Campbell, in the most extra- ordinary and offengjve manner. The Major turned towards Mt. Wuller to ledrh the cause of his troubie, | find asked why he addressed him in so offensive a manner, The Consul said to him, “I wish to see you, sir,” and, rising from his chair, rushed upon | the Major, inflicting blows, which were returned. | At the outset, and before Butler had left his scat, a man by the name of Wadleigh, the companion and empioyé of the Consul, seated near him ut the same table, rose simultaneously with him, drawing his pistol at the same time and exclaiming, “Let us commence the work!” or words to that effect, and instantly began firing at the Major, the Cousul ex- | claiming, “ five it to him, Wadieigh!” Jt was in | the evening, but light enough to sec all the move- men ia man Wadleigh, alter firing five or six shots at the Major—one of which took eject, badly wounding him in the leg, endangering its loss, if not his life—ran into the dining saloon, in the direction of the back door, and the affair ceased here, Idid all I could to prevent its continuance, while the Consul General was doing everything in his power to cause the death of jor Campbell. After that which I have related, and helieving the Consul General the sole cause of this affair, and be- ing convinced that he designed, with the persons then with him, to take the life of Major Campbell, I went to the oftice of the Chief of Police to find out if there was any possibility of having the assassins arrested. The Consul followed me to the ofice with these men, and here refused to aliow the ar- rest of Wadieigh. When I demanded his arrest he (Wadleigh) aren eG back slightly in the rear of Mr. Butler and put his hand upon his pistol, Lael with the intention of drawing it, but was prevente by the police present. I then asked not only that he be arrested, but that he should be placed in irons. At this stage Butler said that he would ar- rest him and be responsible for him, but could not put his friend in irons, These are the facts, briedy told, as they came to my iminediate knowledge. - While at tne police ottice Mr. Strologo, one of Mr. Butler’s companions throughout the whole affair, voluntarily informed me that he endeavored to dis- suade Butier and Wadleigh from making the attack, but he could not do so, showing that the whole aifair was a premeditated thing to murder Major Campbell. Before the Chief of Police could get there I was compelled to leave his office with Major Camp- bell in search of medical aid, a8 he was bicedin, NORTH CAROLINA. The Official Count Not Yet Completed. GLARING REPUBLICAN — INFORMALITIES. os Counties in Which a Larger Vote Has Been Polled Than the Registered Population. RALEIGH, N. C,, August 10, 1872. The full oficial returns of the vote for Governor have not yet been received here, tis generally conceded, however, that Caldwell is elected by a majority ranging from 1,000 to 1,500, counting the great mass of illegal and fraudulent votes polled in nearly all of the negro counties throughout the State. Aside from these, there are so many Instances of illegal informalities in numerous republican counties which will cause to be thrown out so many counties, precincts and wards when the Legislature meets AS PROBABLY TO ELECT MERRIMON Governor of the State hy a handsome majority witn-: out the more disagreeable necessity of contesting the election. The law requires that the Sheritfs of the precincts and townships should publicly an-) nounce the vote cast for all the candidates from the: Court House door, within a certain specified time after the day of election. If this provision ts not: complied with the precinct, township or county can be thrown out, as established’ in the contested case of Edward vs. Lassiter for a Senatorship by the last Legislature, in which the vote of the county of Granville was thrown out. This provision of the law was not complied with in the county of Craven, which gives Caldwell a ma- jority of 1,462, Granville county, which also gave him 679 majority, failed in this legal requirement. In Warren county the poll holders, contrary to all law, carried home the ballot boxes, and did not count the votes until next day. GLARING INPORMALITIRS, Several other of the republican counties in the First Congressional district, where John Pool re- sides, are reported to have held the boxes over until it was convenient for them to count the ballots, Evidence of these illegal informalities is rapidly accumulating and will be laid before the | Legislature when it meets. The first duty of that body after its organization is to canvass the returns and declare the candidates who are elected, and as ‘there is a conservative majority of twenty-four on Joint ballot, it is clear they will not be slow to act upon the alleged frauds and ioformalities and pro- claim Merrimon the Governor elect. The republi- cans in the counties of Clay, Cherokee and Swain in the West, not having received their printed tickets, were forced to write their candidates’ names on slips of paper and vote, and it now ap- Pears that in doing this they omitted all the State officers but Governor and Lieutenant Governor. WHICH MAY DEFEAT ALL the remainder of their State ticket on the present count, Reports of fraudulent voting accumulate: so rapidly that the republicans here are beginning to lose confidence in the election of their candidate, and to-day their entlusiasm has simmered down to a weak and superficial show of triumph. The following republican counttes cast a vote exceed- ing the voting population established by the census of 1870:— SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. In Bladen county the voting strength is put down at 2,610; the number of votes actually cast is 2,656, In Cumberland county the voting strength is put down at 3,252; the number of votes actually cast 1s 3,773, In Duplin county the voting popula- tion ts put down at 2,969; the number of votes ac- tually cast is 3,485. In Franklin county the voting strength is put down at 2,270; the number of votes actually cast is 3,035, In Halifax county the voting strength is put down at 4,455; the actual number of votes cast for Governor in the late election is 5,307. In this county the regis- tration books were said to have been lost. In Lenoir county the voting strength is put down at 2,081; the number of votes cast was 2,264. In Nash county the voting strength is pat down at 2,181; the nuinber of votes cast is 2,577. This increase is, | In part, however, accounted for by the recent an- nexation ofa part of Edgecombe county to Nash. In Northampton county the voting strength 1s put | down at 2,90; the number of votes actually cast ia 8,085. In Robeson county the voting strength is put down at 3,043; the number of votes actually cast is 5,214. In Sampson county the voting strength is put down at 2,986; the vote actually cast is 3,131, GRATZ BROWN. The Governor's Letter of Acceptance of the Bale timore Nomination—His Firm Adherence to the Principles of the Cincinnati Platform. Sr. Lovis, Mo., August 10, 1872, ‘The Evening Despatch publishes the correspond. ence between J, R. Doolittle and B. Gratz Brown, respecting the nomination of tne latter for Vice President by the Baltimore Convention, The letter of Mr. Brown is as follows:— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, JEFFERSON City, August 8, she, GENTLEMEN OF THE Commrrreze—T have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication advising me that I had been unanimously nomi- nated as candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United States at Baltimore. For this mark of con- fidence on the part of so large a representative | body of my fellow citizens, I cannot too deeply ex- (apy my gratitude. The distinction ts one which feel to in @ great measure undeserved, where 80 many more suitable could have been found ; and yet, should your action be contirmed, | shall endeavor to discharge the duties of that high place with fidelity to your crak with devotion to the public interest and with inflexible resolution to prove not unworthy of such choice. The fact that it reposes also upon the declaration of principles af- firmed by the liberal republicans at Cincinnati and prociaimed without amendment by the democratic arty at Baltimore, gives assurance that in this combined expression there is sought only the deliverance of the natton from a present great peri! to its peace and liberties. To that end all minor considerations have been subordinated, and an illustration presented to the country of un- selfish patriotism rather than ae ir party advantage, which should con’ all of the perfect sincerity of {i movetheht. It has involved nosur- render 4n either part of a y, TF conviction! It has not been negotiated or bargained. Its origin was from the people, Though ditfering in the past on some tssues of great magnitude, yet, now that they are settled, there 1s hearty concnr- rence between us ali upon the vital question agt- tating the public mind. What conduct of national affairs that involves your Convention has well set forth ia its platform, and its true accord with the democratic ideas tnat guided our earlier adminis - trations is the best guaranty that it will restore equal rights, tranquil development and constitu- tional ru Permit me also, gentlemen, through you, to ex- press my thanks to the great masses of your party who have since ratified the action with such signal unanimity, and to say to them that in accepting thia, their nomination, I do go, believing there is nothing in honor or in conscience that should pre- vent the most cordial co-operation henceforth im behalf of the politics presented. In concluding, it 1s proper to state that a severe ilness has inter- vened since the reception of your ane ct which has delayed this reply until my recovery an return home. jt ct, yours truly, ‘With very great respect, y\ oF Ratz BROWN. ANOTHER ORISPIN MUDDLE. Boston, August 10, 1872. Over fifty of the heaviest shoe-manufacturing concerns in Lynn have pledged themselves not to employ any persons controlled by Crispin Associa- tlons after to-day. The Crispins, on their part, have voted to withdraw from the Lynn Savings Bank all the money standing to their credit, amounting in the aggregate to about one million five hundred thousand dollars, which sum, tho Crispins ciaim, is largely controlled by the manu- facturers, 10 real estate and other business transac- tions. TURF NOTES, ‘There will be three interesting events ai}flall's Driving Park, on the Coney Island road, to-morrow. First on the card 1s a team race, second a purse and profusely from his wound. With my best regards, oral, r obedient servan aim General, your eve ORING, Brigadier General stake of $400, and third @ match for $500, Other attractions ~omised,